Meditating Through Cancer

It's a back room in an office, a place with storage cabinets, a small kitchen, a sofa and some chairs. About as mundane as it gets.

Until Rose Zuhde, of Murrieta, lights a candle, turns down the lights and asks you to turn inward, to meditate. Then it's something else entirely.

Gone is the stress of a job, the stress of a struggling economy, the stress of raising a family, the stress of cancer.

Zuhde provides an hour of meditation Mondays and Saturdays at 10 a.m. at Michelle's Place, a women's breast cancer resource center in one of those nondescript business parks, this one at 41785 Elm St., Suite 305, Murrieta.

Her goal is to help people seek answers to their pain, to their panic. "I've just been diagnosed with cancer: I'm going to die!" somebody might be thinking. "What will happen to my children, my spouse, when I'm gone?"

Zuhde's own mother died of breast cancer and her sister has been in remission from the disease for six years; so she can relate. She also once did outside sales for a Fortune 500 company, which sounds really impressive -- on the surface. (More)

Source: The Press-Enterprise